With the blood-red mist, Isabella stepped gracefully onto the field.

Elegant posture, captivating dance steps, breathtaking face.

This was a mysterious, powerful, and alluring Vampire Princess.

The confidence returned to Xinyuan Tanchun's eyes.

Although she had used up her hand cards to summon Isabella,

it didn't matter.

As long as Isabella was summoned, it was all worth it!

"Isabella!" Xinyuan Tanchun pointed at the Golden Ship on Shen Sui's field. Although it was just one turn, she had already identified the Golden Ship among the three followers on Shen Sui's field as the most crucial part, the core of Shen Sui's deck, "Attack the Golden Ship!"

"It's useless!" Shen Sui's lips curled up; he had anticipated this.

"What?"

It was then Xinyuan Tanchun realized that the only target her attack could designate was [Daylight Knight Oshana].

"As long as Oshana is on the field, when the opponent activates a card effect or attacks, Oshana must be chosen as the effect target or attack target." Shen Sui declared proudly. As a descendant of Baris, Oshana also upheld the fine tradition of Baris's unconditional trust and willingness to do everything to help friends.

As long as Oshana is on the field, the opponent, whether by effect or attack, must designate her as the target.

This made Oshana one of Shen Sui's most taunting follower cards.

However, due to her lack of resistance, Oshana could basically only block one attack.

But blocking one attack to protect the core follower is worth it.

Isabella's attack could not designate Alice and the Golden Ship.

Xinyuan Tanchun had no choice but to designate Oshana as the attack target.

Isabella's Spirit Value was 3900.

Oshana's Spirit Value was 2200.

With the sound of combat destruction, Shen Sui also suffered battle damage equivalent to the difference in Spirit Values of the combatants, reducing his Life Value from 4000 to 2300.

"My turn ends." Xinyuan Tanchun took a deep breath and ended her turn.

Her gaze was intense, fixed on Shen Sui.

The coming turn would be the most critical turn for Shen Sui.

With the current followers on his field, he couldn't break through Isabella.

So, he must perform a summon or special summon. And once he makes such a move, Isabella's star level would rise with it, further increasing her resistance.

So, how will you respond to this?

Xinyuan Tanchun showed a curious expression.

In her mind, she replayed the Life Cards Shen Sui had used over and over again.

Does he have the means to counter Isabella?

"My turn! Draw!"

Shen Sui smiled slightly, "I actually didn't want you to summon Isabella. Because once your summon succeeds, it puts me in a very awkward position where I have to use a unique method to win this duel."

And once Isabella knows about it, that wouldn't be good.

Xinyuan Tanchun smiled confidently, "What means do you have, just bring it out? Your Holy Artifact Puppet card can't directly deal with her!"

The means Xinyuan Tanchun could think of for Shen Sui to deal with Isabella was the [Bound Holy Artifact Puppet·Naphitaya] he used during the top eight to deal with the Suffering Bodhisattva.

The Holy Artifact Puppet is an effect against the Life Card Master, allowing the opponent to deal with the resistant follower on their field directly. From practical combat, this card could indeed break through Isabella's resistance to deal with Isabella.

However, the Holy Artifact Puppet could only deal with followers with total resistance of fifteen stars.

But now, Isabella was only thirteen stars and had not fully developed to fifteen stars.

"Unless you can complete the summoning of two follower cards within one turn and you draw the Holy Artifact Puppet miraculously."

Seeing Shen Sui's confident demeanor, Xinyuan Tanchun also felt somewhat guilty.

This is also why she was in a hurry to get rid of the Golden Ship.

As long as the Golden Ship was on the field, Shen Sui could indeed do it.

He only needed to switch Alice's form once and special summon a follower.

Then summon a follower from the hand as usual to raise Isabella's star level to fifteen stars.

Shen Sui looked at Xinyuan Tanchun as if looking at a fool, speechless, "Perhaps... you should recall the summoning conditions for the Holy Artifact Puppet?"

Xinyuan Tanchun was stunned.

Ah... no, it seemed she had fallen into a misconception.

Xinyuan Tanchun suddenly realized.

Damn! She was so focused on the Holy Artifact Puppet's effect to counter Isabella, she forgot that it can only be specially summoned from the hand when the opponent summons a fifteen-star follower.

Therefore, regardless of whether Isabella had developed to fifteen stars, this card couldn't deal with Isabella.

"So, how are you going to win?" Xinyuan Tanchun stared at Shen Sui, not believing that he would come to this match unprepared, "If you can't deal with Isabella, you won't be able to defeat me."

"You're too fixated on Isabella's resistance." Shen Sui drew a card from his deck, "And too obsessed with thinking about how the opponent will deal with Isabella."

Shen Sui didn't even look at what card he drew.

Or perhaps, no matter what card he drew, it wouldn't influence the outcome at all.

"Why would I need to deal with Isabella?" Shen Sui tilted his head, smiling at Xinyuan Tanchun.

Xinyuan Tanchun suddenly had a bad premonition.

"It's my turn." Shen Sui shouted, "Pay 5 Soul Points, perform Form Transformation on [Witch of Destruction's Truth - Hozerville] on my field."

"Form Transformation, 5-star form, [Red Lotus Fire·Alice]."

"At this point, the effect of the Golden Ship activates, allowing me to Special Summon a 5-star Follower from my deck."

"I choose to Special Summon from my deck! [Sacrificial Puppet·Ada]."

Shen Sui Special Summoned Ada from his deck.

At this time, Isabella's effect activated, her star level rose to 14 stars, and Ada's star level dropped to 4. Since its spirit value is 0, it didn't decrease.

Due to Isabella's effect not including a destruction effect when spirit value reaches 0, Ada still remains on the field.

"Activate Ada's effect." Shen Sui continued, "This effect can only be activated once per duel, and if it is successfully Special Summoned, a Sacrificial Puppet Derivative is generated in every empty follower slot on my field."

With Ada's effect activation, a derivative appeared in the last empty slot of Shen Sui's Follower Area.

"Then." Shen Sui opened the graveyard, "Activate the effect of [Substitute Puppet·Jamie] from the graveyard."

"Once per turn, I can banish this card from the graveyard to add a Follower Card with multiple forms from deck, graveyard, or banished zone to my hand."

"Isn't your Soul Card on the field?" Xinyuan Tanchun said in surprise.

"Who said I have only one Soul Card!"

Shen Sui opened his deck.

"I choose to add [Star Abyss White Dragon·Qishala] to my hand!"

"What?!" Xinyuan Tanchun's expression slightly changed.

"Activate [Star Abyss White Dragon·Qishala]'s effect! Release the five followers on my field! Normal Summon it to the field."

At this time, Isabella's star level rose to 15.

However, this had no effect on Shen Sui.

The beautiful White Dragon appeared behind Shen Sui.

Her gaze fell on the opposite Isabella, a trace of cunning flashed through her eyes.

"Qishala." Shen Sui raised his hand, pointing at Isabella, "Attack Isabella."

He could almost be certain that during this duel, Qishala would narrate every detail to Isabella.

Ah...

Hope Isabella won't get angry!

Boom!

White light pierced through Isabella.

Isabella wouldn't be destroyed by battle.

She still stood unscathed on the field.

Xinyuan Tanchun took 2100 damage, dropping to 2900 points.

Isabella's star level consequently dropped to 13.

"An attack not resulting in Follower destruction doesn't count towards attack numbers." Shen Sui said mercilessly, "So Qishala can still attack!"

Qishala's white light pierced Isabella again.

Xinyuan Tanchun's life points fell again, down to 800 points.

And at this time, Isabella's star level dropped to 11 stars.

"Isabella's effect activates!" Xinyuan Tanchun grasped the last hope, "When her star level is below the initial level, destroy all opponent's cards on the field!"

However, the blood-red power swept over Shen Sui's field with no effect.

"It's useless! When Qishala is on the field, it isn't affected by other card effects!" Shen Sui made the final judgment, "Qishala! Triple strike!"

Qishala launched the final attack.

With the piercing white light, Isabella still stood there, but behind her, Xinyuan Tanchun's life points had already dropped to zero.

Duel victory!

Shen Sui advanced to the finals.

Sorry, Qishala was indeed targeting Isabella.

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